SnSt Ht 48^III

Auðkendar verr auði
auð-Týr boga nauðir;
þars auðviðum auðit
auðs í gulli rauðu.
Heiðmǫnnum býr heiðis
heiðmildr jǫfurr reiðir;
venr heiðfrǫmuðr heiðar
heiðgjǫf vala leiðar.

{Auð-Týr} verr {auðkendar nauðir boga} auði; þars {auðviðum} auðit auðs í rauðu gulli. Heiðmildr jǫfurr býr {reiðir heiðis} heiðmǫnnum; {heiðfrǫmuðr} venr {heiðar leiðar vala} heiðgjǫf.

{The wealth-Týr <god>} [MAN] wraps {readily recognised compellers of the bow} [ARMS] with wealth; there wealth is allotted {to wealth-trees} [MEN] in red gold. The payment-liberal prince adorns {chariots of the hawk} [ARMS] of paid men; {the payment-advancer} [GENEROUS MAN] accustoms {bright paths of falcons} [ARMS] to the honour-gift.

Mss: R(49v), Tˣ(51v), W(146), U(54r) (SnE)

Readings: [1] ‑kendar: so Tˣ, U, ‑kendur R, ‑kendum W    [2] nauðir: nauðar W    [3] þars (‘þar er’): so W, U, þat er R, Tˣ;    auðit: auði W    [6] ‑mildr: ‑frækn U    [7] venr: so all others, verr R    [8] leiðar: by correction in scribal hand R

Editions: Skj AII, 65, Skj BII, 74, Skald II, 41, NN §1508D; SnE 1848-87, I, 660-1, II, 393, III, 123, SnE 1879-81, I, 8, 79, II, 20, SnE 1931, 236, SnE 2007, 22-3; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 28-9.

Context: As st. 47 above, except that the aðalhendingar extend throughout each helmingr and not only throughout the couplets. The variant is called klifat ‘repeated’.

Notes: [All]: For this rhyme variant, see SnE 2007, 80-1. — [All]: The heading in Tˣ is 40. — [1-4]: This helmingr plays on the different meanings of the homonyms auðr ‘wealth’ and the prefix auð- ‘readily, easily’. — [3] þars ‘there ... is’: So W, U. Þat er ‘which’ or ‘that is’ has been altered in R to þar er (R*). — [5-8]: The near-homonyms in this helmingr are heiðr ‘payment, gift’, heiðir ‘hawk’ and heiðr ‘bright’. For the meaning of heið- ‘payment’, see Konráð Gíslason (1895-7) and NN §1508D. — [7] venr ‘accustoms’: So all other mss. The R variant, verr ‘wraps’ or ‘adorns’ is also possible, but in view of the readings of the other mss, it looks like a repetition of this verb from l. 1.

References

1. Bibliography
2. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
6. Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
7. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.